About the same time as when the 20.3.8 update was applied for me on Friday the 13th I made one final adjustment to my MoCA Network. I was using the Tuning Adapter coax "pass through" to my Roamio Pro which is also my MoCA+Ethernet Bridge for the rest of the house supplying 3 Tivo Mini's and 1 Standard Roamio (waiting for a replacement MoCA Bridge from Actiontec for the STD Roamio).

Per recommendations I've read here and on other websites I installed a 2-way coax splitter to connect the Roamio Pro and the TA separately so the the Roamio Pro MoCA feed was no longer passing through the TA. Seems to have improved things a tad. I was showing speeds of 260-265 RX & TX PHY on the Mini's before the change and am now showing readings in the the 275-280 range. All devices are now working with zero error messages (No more C133 or C130 messages).

I did try re-enabling the 6th tuner on my Roamio Pro but that led to the V58 Unauthorized messages after a few hours of operation so I am back to only having 5 active but reliable tuners.

As soon as I have the STD Roamio back on Ethernet instead of wireless with a replacement MoCA bridge I will probably point one of the Mini's to it for tuning duties leaving only two Mini's using the Roamio Pro for tuning.

Even with all the little "Gotcha's" I've gone through getting this system installed and working over the past 2+ months I am very pleased with the performance and usability improvements I now have over the Charter Cable provided Cisco DVR's.

Now if Charter would just upgrade the Firmware on my Cisco CableCards to 153.1101 all would be nearly perfect in my Tivo system...

Thanks to everyone on the Board, (especially to TiVoMargret), that have contributed so many helpful posts to make our viewing enjoyment even better!

I've never had any cablecard/sdv issues with Charter since I got a Premiere (got it right at launch). I still don't have any issues tuning channels with the Roamio. I guess I am just lucky my cable headend is managed properly.

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Originally Posted by Dan203

Same here. Never had a problem with the tuning adapter. Although until recently I'm not sure they used it for many of the channels I actually watch. Now that they've added all these HD channels they're probably using it more, so I guess we'll see if I start to have the same problems others have had.

I apparently got the 20.3.8 over the weekend and, coincident with that, the Tivo app on my iPad started to insist that my Tivo was not on the same wireless network. Since I have only one wireless network, and the Tivo and iPad were both on it prior to the upgrade (confirmed by forcing a connection) that doesn't seem to be true.

There are other oddities, too. The iPad app says the MAK from my Tivo is invalid. I can login with my Tivo account and get functionality.

[Insert a pause from some further debugging.]

What fixed this is uninstalling the iPad app, reinstalling it, trying to configure it for streaming, failing again with the same "not on home network problem", waiting (while typing this post), and trying again. This time, it succeeded. I have no idea if the uninstall/reinstall was the fix, or it just added enough time so that if I just waited all that time, it would have worked, too.

So, except for the couple of hours spent going in circles, I'm happy. I leave this here for anyone else who stumbles across the problem to let them know they're not alone.

Well, except I'm not. During the typing of that last paragraph, the iPad app twice stopped a download saying the Tivo had lost its connection to the internet. Both times, a retry started it again, but I'm left thinking something is less than stable in 20.3.8 connectivity.

[Sorry for the stream of conciousness problem report, but that seems to best capture what was going on.]

Just noticed that modifying the end time of an upcoming Season Pass recording still results in duplicate recordings.

Yes still a problem, however if you alter the season pass not the individual recording you will not get duplicates. Not a great solution but better than getting duplicates that don't have all the program data.

Yes still a problem, however if you alter the season pass not the individual recording you will not get duplicates. Not a great solution but better than getting duplicates that don't have all the program data.

New MOVIEFONE App that is a very nice replacement to the legacy fandango app.

The Opera Store will launch in January, within the Opera Store App there are about 140 apps the include everything from Facebook, Twitter , Games , Weather , etc.. We are still working on that App and hope to launch it in Early Jan.

Since the update, my two Pros have been rebooting at least once a day. With all the headaches the Roamios have caused, I'm sick of them. I'm going to get rid of one and see if that helps at all. Maybe Pros or Roamios in general don't play well together?

TechCrunch and MovieFone should now be available on Roamio and Mini. If you don't see them in "Apps & Games" then make a connection to the TiVo Service, and after it is complete go to TiVo Central and press THUMBS DOWN - THUMBS UP - PLAY - PLAY. (This will restart the UI, and they will appear. Otherwise they will appear the next time the box reboots.)

TechCrunch and MovieFone should now be available on Roamio and Mini. If you don't see them in "Apps & Games" then make a connection to the TiVo Service, and after it is complete go to TiVo Central and press THUMBS DOWN - THUMBS UP - PLAY - PLAY. (This will restart the UI, and they will appear. Otherwise they will appear the next time the box reboots.)

Any reason why MovieFone and TechCrunch aren't under Find TV, Movies, & Videos with the rest of the video apps (along with My Video Providers)?

TechCrunch and MovieFone should now be available on Roamio and Mini. If you don't see them in "Apps & Games" then make a connection to the TiVo Service, and after it is complete go to TiVo Central and press THUMBS DOWN - THUMBS UP - PLAY - PLAY. (This will restart the UI, and they will appear. Otherwise they will appear the next time the box reboots.)

Could you please elaborate on what Thumbs-Down, Thumbs-Up, RECORD, RECORD does differently, if anything different at all? I noticed, long ago, it seems to do the same thing (reboot the HDUI), except it takes longer to finish doing so (or often seems to). Was it just in the same general area as Play, and given the same end-result, or is there something different?

Last edited by nooneuknow : 12-17-2013 at 06:15 PM.
Reason: added a few words to be more specific

TiVo Roamio and TiVo Mini boxes (purchased from tivo.com or a retailer) were authorized for the 20.3.8 software update tonight.

Here are some of the changes:
- now will retry tuning requests after a Tuning Adapter fails to respond

I am seeing that this is helping quite a bit, I have many Test SDV recordings daily, and not one has failed. Tuning to SDV channels now seems to take a bit longer, but the video finally tunes in. I have not had any tuning failures. (Knock on Wood)

Since today it is taking about 30 seconds to view the details of a show in My Shows (click any recording in My Shows). I am getting the blue circle of death and then the show finally appears.

Same here.

I was going through a list of shows that TiVo incorrectly records (it records repeats even though I have it set to New only; I know it's a guide/hgtv issue, but still frustrating). Anyway I was deleting them one by one. After the first 5 or 6, it started to behave normally.

I am seeing that this is helping quite a bit, I have many Test SDV recordings daily, and not one has failed. Tuning to SDV channels now seems to take a bit longer, but the video finally tunes in. I have not had any tuning failures. (Knock on Wood)

Looking good so far.

This has helped quite a bit but I still have had tuning failures. Not nearly as many as before so it is definitely a big step in the right direction.